Zakharova : We call on the OSCE leadership to resolutely stop attempts to manipulate the mission

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MOSCOW, Feb.13, (ST)-Russia on Sunday said it was concerned by the decision of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to relocate some of their Ukraine-based monitors.
 
The OSCE “informed the participating states of the decision by ‘a number of countries’ to relocate their national staff of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine ‘due to deteriorating security conditions'”, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
 
“These decisions cannot but cause our serious concern.”
 
The OSCE has served as the world’s eyes and ears for the eight-year conflict across Ukraine’s Russian-backed separatist east that has claimed more than 14,000 lives.
 
Zakharova said the OSCE move further inflamed tensions over Ukraine, adding that the monitoring mission could be used as a “tool” to stage a possible provocation.
 
“We call on the OSCE leadership to resolutely stop attempts to manipulate the mission and prevent the organisation from being drawn into dirty political games,” Zakharova added.
Source: Agencies
 
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